10 years later, Costa Concordia disaster vivid for survivors

Table Of Content

• A dozen passengers on cruise ship test positive for coronavirus
• Survivors, salvage workers and locals: the lives changed by Costa Concordia
• How to spend 10 days exploring the Croatian islands
• Costa Concordia workers find body of last person missing in wreckage
• Ship remnants and artifacts
• Costa Concordia captain to appeal against 16-year prison sentence for manslaughter – video

Time-lapse video shows the raising of the wrecked Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia from the underwater platform it has been resting on for the past year. Schettino was convicted of multiple manslaughter as well as abandoning ship after leaving before all the passengers had reached safety. The lifeboats wouldn't drop down because the ship was tilted on its side, leaving hundreds of passengers stranded on the side of the ship for hours in the cold.

A dozen passengers on cruise ship test positive for coronavirus

Jo Ling Kent visited their state-of-the-art facility in Oregon for an in-depth report. After a deceased woman's toxicology report showed an abnormality — a chemical compound found in several brands of over-the-counter eye drops — suspicions grow over her caregiver's story. Paris police cordoned off an area around an Iranian consulate amid reports of a man threatening to detonate a bomb, but a suspect was quickly detained. Niger has been home to a major U.S. airbase in the city of Agadez, some 550 miles from the capital Niamey, using it for manned and unmanned surveillance flights and other operations. "I think it’s the panic, the feeling of panic, is what’s carried through over 10 years," Ian Donoff, who was on the cruise with his wife Janice for their honeymoon, told Cobiella. The passengers, whose infections were found through random testing, were asymptomatic or had mild symptoms, according to the Port of San Francisco.

Survivors, salvage workers and locals: the lives changed by Costa Concordia

Off the coast of Italy, Costa Concordia is one step closer to being towed to its final resting place. Ortelli was later on hand when, in September 2013, the 115,000-ton, 300-meter (1,000-foot) long cruise ship was righted vertical off its seabed graveyard in an extraordinary feat of engineering. But the night of the disaster, a Friday the 13th, remains seared in his memory. The 10th anniversary is also recalling how the residents of Giglio took in the 4,200 surviving passengers and crew, giving them food, blankets and a place to rest until day broke and they were ferried to the mainland. Giglio’s people then lived with the Concordia’s 115,000-ton, 300-meter (1,000-foot) carcass for another two years until it was righted and hauled away for scrap. Ortelli was later on hand when, in September 2013, the 115,000-ton, 1,000-foot long cruise ship was righted vertical off its seabed graveyard in an extraordinary feat of engineering.

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When it's completely removed, salvage crews will build a platform under the ship, and cranes will pull her upright. Then air pumped into massive steel containers welded to either side will -- if the computer models are correct -- re-float the wreck, which Italian investigators are desperate to have a look at. As the Costa Concordia made its final journey out of the port of Giglio, some survivors and families of victims looked on as a final farewell. In the aftermath of the disaster, legal claims mounted against the owner of the ship, Costa Cruises. They included lawsuits by the region of Tuscany and a €189m suit by the island of Giglio, which claimed that the accident and the presence of the downed vessel hurt tourism and the local economy. “From the happiness and wonder of being on a cruise, we passengers became panic stricken and fell over.

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The Costa Concordia has been sitting upright on an underwater steel platform since last September. Six months later, the Concordia itself still looms just offshore, and it's Nick Sloane's job to remove it. Little remains on the decks except a jumble of lounge chairs by the empty swimming pools. But, on the underside, a huge chunk of rock that ripped open the hull is clearly visible.

Ship remnants and artifacts

The chaotic scenes of panic and disorganisation that gripped the ship as it started to sink are evident throughout the report. The 60-page document makes up the official request to have captain Francesco Schettino - who was in charge at the time - sent for trial. The plan is to tow the ship to Genoa, in northern Italy, where she'll be broken up for scrap. But even that is a risky operation, and there's still a good week's work here before they get to that point. On Monday, authorities said they were satisfied that the operation to float the Concordia had proceeded without a hitch. "Very big lifts. We had eleven-story buildings, seven-story buildings, over eight hundred tons, so a lot of heavy lifts in a short time," director of the operation Nick Sloane said.

“It was a night that, in addition to being a tragedy, had a beautiful side because the response of the people was a spontaneous gesture that was appreciated around the world,” Ortelli said. Prosecutors have also requested the indictment of five other crew members, including two officers Ciro Ambrosio and Silvio Coronica and the Concordia's helmsman Jacob Rusli. It also details how Schettino was distracted as he was speaking on the telephone while he was ''in close proximity to the coast in a dangerous situation and with the helm under manual control". The last moments of musician Giuseppe Girolamo are described in another section of the report. She was later seen terrified by the edge of the ship, jumping into the water without a lifejacket despite not being able to swim.

He was charged with manslaughter as well as causing the wreck and abandoning ship. During the 19-month trial, prosecutors claimed that he was an “idiot,” while Schettino countered that his actions had saved lives and that he was being scapegoated. In addition, he noted the steering error by the helmsman, but a maritime expert testified that regardless of the mistake, the collision was unavoidable. In February 2015 Schettino was convicted on all charges and sentenced to more than 16 years in prison. He appealed the verdict, but it was upheld in May 2017; Schettino began serving his sentence shortly thereafter.

But the report noted that some passengers testified that they didn’t hear the alarm to proceed to the lifeboats. Evacuation was made even more chaotic by the ship listing so far to starboard, making walking inside very difficult and lowering the lifeboats on one side, near to impossible. Making things worse, the crew had dropped the anchor incorrectly, causing the ship to flop over even more dramatically. Almost immediately questions were raised concerning the conduct of Schettino and other crew officers. In July 2013 four crew members and Costa Crociere’s crisis coordinator pled guilty to various charges, including manslaughter. That same month Schettino went on trial after being denied a plea bargain.

Martine Muller and her husband were given the cruise as a birthday gift from her children. She told the Guardian at the time how she was frantically asking everyone she knew whether they had news from her husband, while she waited at the port. Just as the ship was making its way north-west along the coastline, Schettino called for the vessel to be steered close to Giglio as a way to “salute” the island. The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapsed early Tuesday, March 26 after a column was struck by a container ship that reportedly lost power, sending vehicles and people into the Patapsco River. A report from the United Nations determined that 1 million species are threatened with extinction.

Costa Concordia was declared a "constructive total loss" by the cruise line's insurer, and her salvage was "one of the biggest maritime salvage operations". On 16 September 2013, the parbuckle salvage of the ship began, and by the early hours of 17 September, the ship was set upright on her underwater cradle. In July 2014, the ship was refloated using sponsons (flotation tanks) welded to her sides, and was towed 320 kilometres (200 mi) to her home port of Genoa for scrapping, which was completed in July 2017.

But after eight years in the U.S. and then Italian court system, they lost their case. It also emerged that holidaymaker Maria D'Introno - whose body has yet to be recovered - was told to get out of a lifeboat because it was too full and the tilt of the ship made it impossible to launch safely. At least since Titanic, cruise accidents have sparked new safety standards. She has been based in London since late 2003, after having been based in Moscow ( ).